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  • Rain Africa Goes Wild

    It was a gloriously warm, okay hot Tuesday when I drove out to Ballito for the Rain Africa event hosted by the franchise owners of Pavilion, Gateway and the new Ballito Junction stores – Yusuf Sheik and Ryan Waters. Why a Tuesday? Well it was a public holiday! Human Rights Day to be exact. This year’s event was held

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  • African Roots Coffee

    I first heard about and tasted African Roots Coffee when we received a bag of their Tanzanian beans from the Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great Coffee Club in September 2015. We (my husband and I) subsequently chatted to the owner, Mark Platt, at that years Good Food & Wine Show in Durban. The next time I saw Mark Platt was when

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  • Joyful Coffee with Java Maestro

    We have been using the French Press to make coffee for many, many years. In the beginning we bought ground coffee from the supermarket #horror. Finally we invested in a coffee grinder nearly two years ago and were amazed at the taste difference. We also started buying coffee beans from The Coffee Magazine’s Discover Great Coffee Club and from coffee

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